Racenet AU Horse Profile Scraper

This Actor scrapes detailed horse racing profiles from Racenet.com.au, extracting comprehensive information about horses including their statistics, breeding information, race history, and connections.

Features

• Horse profile data: id, name, slug, colour, sex, sexShort, age, country, imageUrl, silkImageUrl, foalDate, racingColours, etc.
• Breeding details: sire, sireCountry, dam, damCountry, breeder.
• Connections: owner, trainer, jockey.
• Performance stats: totalRuns, totalWins, totalSeconds, totalThirds, winPercentage, placePercentage, totalPrizeMoney.
• Previous runs: id, date, venue, eventName, eventDistance, finishPosition, totalStarters, jockey, and more.

Input

The Actor accepts the following input parameters:

{
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.racenet.com.au/profiles/horse/briasa-aus"
        }
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
}

Input Parameters

• startUrls (required) - Array of horse profile URLs to scrape
  • Format: https://www.racenet.com.au/profiles/horse/{horse-slug}
• proxyConfiguration (optional) - Proxy settings for the crawler

Output

The Actor outputs structured data for each horse profile:

{
    "url": "https://www.racenet.com.au/profiles/horse/briasa-aus",
    "scrapedAt": "2024-11-16T14:54:00.000Z",
    "horse": {
        "id": "12345",
        "name": "Briasa",
        "slug": "briasa-aus",
        "colour": "Bay",
        "sex": "Mare",
        "sexShort": "M",
        "age": 5,
        "country": "AUS",
        "imageUrl": "...",
        "silkImageUrl": "...",
        "foalDate": "2019-09-15",
        "racingColours": "..."
    },
    "breeding": {
        "sire": "Sire Name",
        "sireCountry": "AUS",
        "dam": "Dam Name",
        "damCountry": "AUS",
        "breeder": "Breeder Name"
    },
    "connections": {
        "owner": "Owner Name",
        "trainer": {
            "id": "67890",
            "name": "Trainer Name",
            "slug": "trainer-slug",
            "location": "Location"
        }
    },
    "stats": {
        "totalRuns": 15,
        "totalWins": 3,
        "totalSeconds": 4,
        "totalThirds": 2,
        "winPercentage": 20.0,
        "placePercentage": 60.0,
        "totalPrizeMoney": 150000
    },
    "previousRuns": [
        {
            "id": "run123",
            "date": "2024-10-15",
            "venue": "Flemington",
            "eventName": "Melbourne Cup",
            "eventDistance": 3200,
            "finishPosition": 1,
            "totalStarters": 24,
            "jockey": {
                "id": "jockey123",
                "name": "Jockey Name"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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